Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes
Parent taxon: Myliobatiformes according to D. J. Cicimurri et al. 2022
See also Ebersole et al. 2019 and Nelson et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Acanthobatis, Aetobatidae, Bates, Ceratopteridae, Dasyatidae, Dasyatoidea, Eomanta, Gymnuridae, Hypolophodon, Mobuloidea, Myliobatidae, Myliobatoidea, Phosphatodon, Platyrhinoidei, Ptychacanthus, Texabatis, Urolophidae, Urotrygonidae
Subtaxa: Aturobatis Hexatrygonidae Plesiobatidae Potamotrygonidae
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Venezuela (1 collection)
• Hemphillian of Mexico (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Brazil (1), Colombia (2), Peru (6)
• Oligocene of Peru (3)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Peru (1)
• Eocene of France (2), Peru (1), United States (1: Alabama), Western Sahara (1)
Total: 21 collections including 26 occurrences